Emma Guo

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Emma Guo 2012.jpg
Emma Guo at the 2012 Chess Olympiad
Association AustraliaAustralia Australia
Born February 23, 1995
Canberra , Australia
title International Champion of Women (2011)
Current  Elo rating 2062 (August 2019)
Best Elo rating 2092 (February to May 2013, January to April 2018)
Tab at the FIDE (English)

Emma Guo (born February 23, 1995 in Canberra ) is an Australian chess player .

Life

Emma Guo is from Canberra. She started playing chess when she was six years old, taught by her older brother. She was trained in Canberra by Peter Simpson. She studied at the University of Canberra Senior Secondary College at Lake Ginninderra and then at the Australian National University in Canberra.

successes

She won the Australian U10 Championship in 2004 and 2005, and the U12 Championship in Brisbane in 2006 . In 2007 she won the Australian U18 Championship for Women in Canberra. At the oceanic zone tournament 2009 in Gold Coast , also the oceanic championship, she finished third behind Arianne Caoili and Irina Berezina . For this she received the title FIDE Women's Champion (WFM) from the World Chess Federation FIDE . At the oceanic zone tournament in 2011 in Rotorua she had 8.5 points after ten rounds and was tied with Irina Berezina in first place. A subsequent tie-break she lost to Berezina, but received the title of International Women's Champion (WIM) for her result of 85 percent . In the 2013 zone tournament near Nadi , she was also level on points behind Irina Berezina second.

For the Australian women's national team, she played at the 2010 Chess Olympiads on the fourth, 2012 on the second and 2014 on the third board.

At the U18 Championship of the Australian Capital Territory in November 2012 in Canberra, she was the main referee.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chess master at just 17 . Article by Mark Sawa in The Canberra Times, May 15, 2012
  2. ↑ Zone tournament in Rotorua 2011 ( Memento from January 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
  3. ↑ 2011 Oceania Women's Zonal Playoff
  4. ↑ Emma Guo's results at the women's chess Olympiads on olimpbase.org (English)
  5. ↑ Results of the Australian team at the 2014 Women's Chess Olympiad on chess-results.com
  6. ↑ Tournament details of the 2012 ACT U18 Championship at fide.com (English)
personal data
SURNAME Guo, Emma
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian chess player
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1995
PLACE OF BIRTH Canberra